Holiday entitlement calculator
Almost every worker in the United Kingdom is entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. What that means in days depends on the working pattern.
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The 5.6 weeks rule
Almost every worker is entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. A week means their working week, so somebody working five days a week gets twenty-eight days, and somebody working three days a week gets 16.8 days. The entitlement is capped at twenty-eight days, which is why working six days a week does not produce 33.6.
Bank holidays
This is the point most people get wrong. There is no legal right to paid time off on a bank holiday. An employer is entitled to count the eight English bank holidays, or the Scottish equivalents, towards the 5.6 weeks. A contract offering twenty days plus bank holidays and one offering twenty-eight days inclusive are the same offer.
Irregular hours and part-year workers
In England, Scotland and Wales, where hours vary or the work is only for part of the year, entitlement builds up at 12.07 per cent of the hours actually worked in each pay period, for leave years beginning on or after 1st April 2024. Northern Ireland did not adopt that reform and continues to use a reference period. The holiday pay calculator covers both.